Aleksandr Tuchkin
Status: National December 28, 2013
Alexander Arkadyevitch Tutschkin (Russian Александр Аркадьевич Тучкин, Belarusian Аляксанд ( а ) р Тучкін, Aljaksand ( a) r Tutschkin; born July 15, 1964 in Lviv ) is a retired Russian- Belarusian handball player.
The 2.03 m wide Tutschkin was used during his time in the right rear area.
Sporting career
Association
Tutschkin began with 17 years with the handball game and was discovered by Spartak Mironovich, the longtime coach of the top clubs SKA Minsk. At 20 he made his debut in professional team of SKA. Here he won in 1987, 1989 and 1990, the EHF Champions League and the 1988 European Cup Winners' Cup. In 1990, he took advantage of the fall of the Iron Curtain to switch in the German handball league, namely TuSEM food. With the men of the Margarethenhoehe he was in 1991 and 1992 German Cup Winners' Cup and won the 1994 European City Cup. In 1998 he moved on to GWD Minden, where after a serious car accident while under the influence, his contract was not renewed in September 1999. His performance power he could not fully recover after the fracture of the neck vertebrae. There followed years of wandering in July 2000, he moved to the then newly promoted Eintracht Hildesheim and in December for the Spanish club CB Cantabria Santander. In 2002 he moved on to AC Filippos Verias to Greece, where he was able to win the 2003 championship. In 2004 he returned to Germany to finish his career at third division TSV Hannover -Burgdorf. In the spring of 2006 he was persuaded to take a short comeback when William HV, but there was hardly used.
National
After Tutschkin 1985 world champion with the Soviet national youth team, he made his debut the following year in the Soviet men national team, with which he was able to win the gold medal at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Two years later they were beaten by surprise at the 1990 World Cup finals in Sweden. This Tutschkin was mixed with 55 hits together with Julián Duranona scorer of the tournament. Due to an injury he could not compete for the later victorious United Team ( EUN) of the former Soviet republics at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.
Then he decided aground for the Belarusian national team. He denied, however, already in the first round of the 1995 World Cup of his last 10 appearances for Belarus.
At the request of his longtime friend Andrei Lavrov he played from 1998 for the Russian national team, with whom he again defeated Sweden in the 1999 World Cup and the European Championship in 2000 each in the finals. In the following Olympic Games in Sydney, he succeeded in revenge and he was for the second time Olympic champion. At the age of 40 he won in Athens in 2004 again bronze.
Political career
Tutschkin now operates in the Russian Ministry of Sport, where he with his former companions Andrei Lavrov tried together to make the sport of handball in Russia popular.